It looks like something out of a Sci-Fi movie and operates like a high-tech device with its touchscreen interface.

But the coffee it makes is ordinary.

Not because it lacked variety — there are 30 different pod options — or because the blend was too weak, or too bitter for that matter, but because instead of having a milk spout or milk-frothing attachment, it relied on powdered milk capsules.

Now for an almond milk-drinking millennial like myself this was no good, but for a coffee connoisseur like my colleague Simon Thomsen, this was blasphemy.

The coffee machine in action. Photo: Business Insider Australia.

“I’m not sure I’m a fan,” he said in Business Insider’s Facebook Live review.

“It [the milk] is quite dominant compared to the coffee.”

Thomsen hinted the “hipster barista” movement in Australia has played an important role in educating the consumer on good coffee.